{"id":7138,"date":"2026-06-22T18:11:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T18:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/?p=7138"},"modified":"2026-08-04T19:31:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T19:31:44","slug":"professor-akshya-saxena-on-the-power-of-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/professor-akshya-saxena-on-the-power-of-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Akshya Saxena on the power of English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/bio\/akshya-saxena\/\">Akshya Saxena<\/a><\/strong> was recently featured on Vanderbilt&#8217;s\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/quantumpotential\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quantum Potential<\/a><\/em> podcast.<\/p>\n<p>In its bonus episode, &#8220;Language and Its Political and Social Power,&#8221; Professor Saxena discusses how English operates in multilingual societies like India\u2014not just as a language, but as a force shaping democracy, identity and access.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the episode <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/quantumpotential\/2026\/06\/10\/season-2-bonus-episode-language-and-its-political-and-social-power-with-associate-professor-of-english-akshya-saxena\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/quantumpotential\/2026\/06\/10\/season-2-bonus-episode-language-and-its-political-and-social-power-with-associate-professor-of-english-akshya-saxena\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7140 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/06\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/06\/hqdefault.jpg 480w, https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/06\/hqdefault-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/news\/\">MORE NEWS<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor Akshya Saxena was recently featured on Vanderbilt&#8217;s\u00a0Quantum Potential podcast. In its bonus episode, &#8220;Language and Its Political and Social Power,&#8221; Professor Saxena discusses how English operates in multilingual societies like India\u2014not just as a language, but as a force shaping democracy, identity and access. Listen to the episode here. MORE NEWS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":7139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19,14],"tags":[5],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-22-130946.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7138"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7143,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7138\/revisions\/7143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}